Sight for firearms



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JENS E. KRAFT, OF GROVELAND, CALIFORNIA.

SIGHT FOR FIREARMS.

Specification of Letters Patent.

Patented June 29, 1920.

Application filed June 5, 1919. Serial No. 301,893.

To all whom it may concern:

Be it known that I, JENS E. KRAFT, a citizen of the United States, and a resident of Groveland, in the county of Toulumne and State of California, have invented a new and useful Improvement in Sights for Firearms, of which the following is a specification.

This invention relates to an improvement in gun and pistol sights, and one of the principal objects thereof is to provide a sight representing such a color to the marksman that it will contrast with the object aimed at.

A further object is to provide a sight whose visual surface will be disposed at such an angle to the gun barrel that it will be always properly illuminated, irrespective of the angle at which the light falls on the sight.

The invention involves the use of a sight having a visual surface of a red color and inclined at such an angle to the eye of the marksman that the surface will, at all times, evenly and properly be illuminated, no matter in what direction the light is coming.

With these and other objects in view, which will become apparent as the description proceeds, the invention resides in the construction, combination, and arrangement of parts hereinafter more fully described and claimed, and illustrated in the accomin which like characters of reference indicate like parts throughout the several figures, of which Figure 1 represents a side elevational view of a rifle equipped with a sight constructed according to my invention;

Fig. 2 represents a sectional view taken on the line 2-2 of Fig. 1, looking in the direction indicated by the arrows;

Fig. 3 represents an enlarged side elevational view of the sight showing same when mounted on a gun or pistol barrel;

Fig. 4 represents a view in perspective of the sight.

Referring more particularly to the drawing, it will be understood that although I have shown the sight applied to rifles, it is also applicable to pistols and, in fact, any type of small arms. A rifle barrel is indicated at 1, and carries in proper position my improved sight, which comprises a body portion 2, mounted on a base portion 3.

4 indicates a colored material, preferably celluloid, which I color red so that it always contrasts with the object aimed at. It may be here noted that any durable composition which is capable of taking on a red color comes within the purview of my invention.

A relatively thin metallic shell 5, surrounds the colored material, and its primary object is to protect the same from fracture.

From an inspection of the drawing it will be noted that the visual surface of my improved sight is plane and is disposed at an angle of approximately 60 to the axis of the fire arm, the visual surface of the sight being inclined at its upper end away from the eye of the marksman. I do this for the reason that I have found that by using a plane surface, inclined at its upper end away from the eye, the red sight surface will be properly and evenly illuminated, no matter at what angle the light falls on the surface. This insures that at all times a fiat red sight surface will be presented to the eye of the marksman. I have chosen red as the color of the sight, for the reason that practically no game is of a red color, hence, there is always a marked contrast as between the sight surface and the object aimed at, and a further reason resides in the fact that in the twilight, in the dusk of the woods, a fiat red sight surface will stand out more clearly and more distinctly than a black, white, or metallic sight, or, indeed, more than any other color.

I claim 1. A firearm foresight comprising a base adapted to be mounted on the barrel of the firearm, a metallic shell mounted on said base and having its rear end open, and a composition filling said shell and visible at the open rear end thereof, said composition being colored red.

2. A firearm foresight comprising a base adapted to be secured on the barrel of the firearm, a shell mounted on said base and having its rear end open and inclined, and a sheet of red celluloid fitting within said shell and visible at the open rear end thereof.

JENS E. KRAFT. 

